Wall cabinet



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This invention relates to wall cabinets, such as medicine cabinets or closets usually provided in bathrooms and the like. It has for its objects to produce an interiorly illuminato provide a simple and practical built-in lighting device in which the lamp is automatically lighted when the door of the cabinet is opened and the light likewise extinguished when the door is closed; and to attain certain other advantages as will hereinafter more fully appear. 4

The invention consists in the novel construction and in the parts and combinations and arrangements of parts as hereinafter de scribed and set forth in the appended claims.

- part of In the accompanying drawing, forming this specification and illustrating a practical adaptation of the invention,-

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet with the door closed andportions of the door being broken away to illustrate certain interior arrangements of the cabinet;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the cabinet, the section being taken on or about the line 22 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on or about the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on or about the line H of Fig. 3; and I Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section, on an enlarged scale, taken on or about the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawin the numeral 1O designates the cabinet, whic may beconstructed of metal or any other suitable material. As shown, the cabinet is provided at opposite ends with vertical compartments 11 which extend from top to bottom of the cab-'. inet, said compartments being connected at the bottom of the cabinet by a transverse compartment 12.- These compartments may be conveniently produced in a hollow Walled unitary structure for a cabinet which may be mounted on the outside of the wall in a room, or said compartments may be provided in the framework fora built-in cabinet structure.

In the preferred structure the compartments or chambers 11 are divided from the main compartment of the cabinet by walls 13 having panels of frosted glass or the like 14 1929. Serial No. 369,572.

extending from top to bottom of the cabinet.

These panels are preferably removable so that access may be re adily had to the compartments or chambers 11, and for this purpose, said division wal ls 13 are provided with rectangular openings having rabbeted marginal portions 15 in which seated. The place by the said panels 14 are panels 14 are releasably held in abutting end portions of shelves 16, which are removably seated on lugs 17 or other suitable supporting. brackets provided on the division walls 13.

gement of lamps may be provided in the compartments or chambers 11, the light from which will be transmitted and diffused through the panels 14 into the main compartment of the cabinet. It is preferable to-provide sockets 18 in the lower portions of the compartments 11, in which sockets may be placed elongated tubu- Any suitable arran lar electric light bulbs 19. Said sockets 18 may be tapped into an electrical circuit in any obvious manner, and any suitable switch may be provided. that will act automatically to close said circuit when the cabinet door is opened and break said circuit when the door.

is closed. Such an arrangment is shown more or less diagrammatically in Fig. 5 of the drawing.

bracket 21 on the According ment the switch com member 20 which slides through to this arrangeuses a reciprocatory' a guide division wall 13 and throu h an opening 22 in the front wall 23 of t e cabinet. a collar thereon between said 0 bracket member tion of the cabinet doo baid member20 is provided with 24 and it has a spring 25 sleeved ollar 24 and said guide 21, said spring 25 acting to move said 20 outwardly. In the closed posir 26 the outer end portion 27 of the member 20 is engaged by the inner faceof the door and sai member 20 is held in retracted position against the tension of the compressed spring 25. When the door 26 is opened the spring, 25moves the member 20 outwardl a lateral projection and at thesame time at the inner end of said member20 is brought into engagement with a normally opened spring terminal contact member 29 and moves the latter into engagement with a coop erative companion ter-' minal member 30, and thereby closes the electricalcircuit through the lamps 19.

By the provision of the illuminable compartments at the ends of the cabinet and extending from top to bottom thereof, the interior of the main compartment of the cabinet is illuminated sufficiently to observe the contents of the cabinet without necessitating the illumination of the room, and the provision I of an automatic switch controlled by the opening and closing of the door of the cabinet is of material advantage.

Obviously, the structure admits of considerable modification without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as fined by the appended claims. The invention, therefore, is not limited to the specific construction and arrangements shown in the accompanying drawing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a cabinet of the character described, a main storage compartment having a series of removable shelves, an illuminating chamber at the side of said main compartment and extending from top to bottom thereof, and a dividing wall between said main compartment and said illuminating chamber including a removable light transmitting panel retained in place by abutting end portions of the shelves of the cabinet.

2. A cabinet of the character described comprising a housing divided into a main storage compartment at the middle thereof and auxiliary compartments at opposite ends thereof, said auxiliary compartments extending from top to bottom of the cabinet, the division walls between said main compartment and auxiliary compartments including removable light transmitting panels, shelves removably supported on the division walls between said main and auxiliary compartments with their end portions abutting said panels in retentive relation thereto, and means for illuminating said auxiliary compartments.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

LESLIE F. CORRIGAN. 

